Arabic

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. This course is open to students coming from different faculties and curricula. Students may attend this course after completion of the previous first level and familiarization with Arabic sounds and script. The second level course focuses on spoken Levantine Arabic, Beirut variety. Students become better acquainted with spoken Arabic and culture-specific topics and concepts, focusing on possible fields for intercultural negotiation, while keeping in tact culture specificities and differences.

This course addresses:
-Spoken Language: additional study of the Levantine variety (Beirut); twin formulae from the Egyptian variety (Cairo) for introducing oneself and greetings.

-Chunks, collocations, and formulae: additional collocations and chunks, considered useful for the diplomatic-administrative sphere; isolated lexicon and elementary but culturally significant formulae are presented. At this stage, students are invited to simply memorize a number chunks-collocations-formulae.